Jury trials that are underway continue but there are no new jury trials

Crown Courts are only covering urgent work

Magistrates’ courts are only covering urgent work (overnight custody and people brought from prison). Magistrates’ court cases update; 30 March 2020 (PDF, 213KB, 1 page). We’re continuing to work closely with partner agencies across the criminal justice system to put in place processes that will enable us to expand the range of work undertaken as soon as we can do so. We’ll provide further updates once we are in a position to start put these arrangements in place